Date: MON 17-APR-95 06:04:33 GMT Subject: Solo Update 04/17/95 DAY 54 0600GMT

REVIEW AND EXTENSION CONFERENCE OF NPT STARTS TODAY

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The Pacific Pintail is in position (2100 GMT) is 26 degrees 59 minutes North, and 163 degrees and 54 minutes East. The Pintail's course is 285 degrees and the ship's speed is 14 Knots. For distances to Pacific Islands please see enclosed table.

The transports of radioactive waste and plutonium find their origin in the commercial plutonium separation industry in France, the United Kingdom and Japan. Through governmental support and encouragement this industry has thus far avoided in having placed any restraints or limitations on its production and trading capacity. Last month, a mandate for negotiations to start at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament on a production ban on military fissile (including plutonium) materials failed to include commercial plutonium in its scope. Since commercial plutonium can be used directly to produce a nuclear weapon, the continuing production and commerce in this material not only severely pollutes our planet, it also makes virtually certain that non- proliferation objectives designed to prevent the spread of atomic weapons are bound to ultimately fail.

Today, in New York the Review and Extension Conference of the Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) started. The some 170 States Party to the Treaty will vote how to extend the NPT after they have met to discuss the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons, weapons technology and materials in the context of full nuclear disarmament and global security. The current, selective application of non-proliferation policies by the nuclear-weapons- states further underscores the discriminatory of the NPT. These policies not only severely undercut the effectiveness of the non-proliferation regime, they also bind our society to a future of increased radioactive pollution.

Greenpeace UK Action at Sellafield.71KB GIF or 18KB JPG. Greenpeace UK Action at Sellafield. ©Greenpeace/(photographer unidentified for legal reasons).

Greenpeace UK Action at Sellafield.67KB GIF or 22KB JPG. Greenpeace UK Action at Sellafield. ©Greenpeace/(photographer unidentified for legal reasons).

Greenpeace UK Action at Aldermaston.71KB GIF or 20KB JPG. Greenpeace UK Action at Aldermaston. ©Greenpeace/(photographer unidentified for legal reasons).

Greenpeace UK Action at Aldermaston.75KB GIF or 21KB JPG. Greenpeace UK Action at Aldermaston. ©Greenpeace/(photographer and participants unidentified for legal reasons).

Greenpeace UK Action at Aldermaston.67KB GIF or 21KB JPG. Greenpeace UK Action at Aldermaston. ©Greenpeace/(photographer and participants unidentified for legal reasons).

Greenpeace urges all States Party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to call for an end on the production and trade in commercial plutonium at the NPT Extension Conference.

Pacific State City/Island Distance/Direction relative to PP's course
Mutsu Ogawara Japan 1,290 miles, 20 degrees right of PP
Tokyo Japan 1,230 miles, 10 degrees right of PP
Marshall Isl. Bikini 990 miles, 115 degrees left of PP
F.S. Micronesia Pohnpei 1,250 miles, 100 degrees left of PP
Nauru Nauru Island 1,700 miles, 115 degrees left of PP
Guam Guam 1,340 miles, 60 degrees left of PP
Media updates from the Solo are sent out on a daily basis at approximately 0600 GMT and 0800 lt. If additional information on the Pacific Pintail's voyage or it's cargo of plutonium waste is required, please contact Bas Bruyne on the Solo (phone:++ 872-1301166), or Karen Richardson at Greenpeace UK (phone: ++44-171-226-3151). Photo, video, or other media requests should be made to Blair Palese or Mark Warford at Greenpeace Communications (phone: ++44-171-8330-600).

Best regards
and No Nukes!
Ulf Birgander (Captain)

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